Islamabad June 15 2023: Pakistan Peoples Party’s (PPP) Murtaza Wahab became the party’s first leader to get elected as the port city’s mayor with 173 votes, defeating Jamat-e-Islami’s (JI) Hafiz Naeem Ur Rehman.
The mayoral contest was between Wahab and Rehman, as all the other candidates had withdrawn their nomination papers. The respective deputy mayor candidates of the PPP and JI are Salman Abdullah Murad and Saifuddin.
According to the entry register 303 elected members reached the polling station. Three elected members were brought in an armoured personnel carrier.
